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/ The Gaffney ledger. A NEW1PAPCR IN ALL THAT THE WORD IMPLIES, AND DEVOTED TO THE BEET INTEREST OP THE PEOPLE OF CHEROKEE COUNTY. ESTABLISHED FEB. 16, 1894. GAFFNEY, S. C., FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1908. $140 A YEAR. SHE SOUGHT A WATERY GHAVE THE IRENE COTTON MILL. CIDE AT IRENE PARK. Wheat Makes a Distinct Advance In Higher Quality. The Charlotte Observer of last Sun- day contained the following concem- ! ing Gaffney’s premier mill: YOUNG WOMAN ATTEMPTS SUI- A \i r . h. D. Wheat is operating the Irene Cotton Mill at Gaffney, S. C., on Jacquard loom work. He has sent to \ Mr. D. A. Th® pkins a half-dozen tow- ou . . .■ . els which are of as artistic design She Jumpe j Into the Lake ana Is Res- ° , and execution as the best work on cued m the Nick of Time By Mr. the market. The work really looks fike high-class European linen. The Ell,s - , New York agents who sell these goods I t ^ ^ , ' ,,,. . .French friend potatoes, boiled rice, “Let me go! I think I can go home say, there i s nothing like them | tato dressing chicken dressing now.” These were the words uttered made anywhere in the South and^ 0 dresslD ^ chicken dressing, bv I^lor Morrow as she stood drip- none better in this country, ping wet upon the bank of the lake j The movement in cotton manufaq, at Irene Park from the waters of ture in the South is constantly to- which she had been rescued by “Un-1 wards better work. This general im- cle Logan” Ellis, the keeper of the provement means higher knowledge | Plckies. sour pickles^ celery, etc. At A DELIGHTFUL AFFAIR. Banquet to Limestone Ladies by GaR* ney Gallants. One of the royal events of the sea son took place Wednesday evening when the young men of the city ten dered a banquet to the young ladles of Limestone college at Parish’s ho tel. The dining room was tastefully and appropriately decorated for the occasion and the menu was, as might be expected, all that could be desired, conslting of turkey, roast beef, boiled j ham, chicken and potato salad, cranberry sauce,. apples, oranges, bananas, ice sherbert, ice cream, cof fee. ice tea, milk, fruit cake, Jelly cake, plain white cake, gelatine, sweet CORN RAISER PRE PARING THEIR LAND Kown, at Gaffney last Monday. He is one of Cherokee county's best young men and was In one jf the team of gallant college boys w o. in the grand parade last spring, at the U. C. vet- ! eran reunion In Columbia, hauled the wagons loaded with crippled old sol- THEY ARE AFTER THE PRIZES diers, keeping them In line of march FOR THE BEST ACRE. The Ledger's power Inspected ! the Sage of Etta Cherokee Notes. from the United States court house j to and around the capltol building j amid the huzzahs of the assembled tens of thousands alon« the street. and Mrs. T. J. Estes, is very sick at this time. To Mrs. Mary Dagnall, of Hickory Grove, the god-mother of Frank Brown Dagnall, we are indebted for a photo graph of little Frank. This is the cbild The Ledger was instrumental in finding for the adoption by Mr. and Mrs. Dagnall about two years ago. He is a fine loobing boy and his fo»- ter-parents are very much attached to him. The closing exercises at the Hick ory Glove High school on the 8th waa a very enjoyable affair. In addition pari;, cm Wednesday afternoon. It was between four.and five o’clock that Mr. Ellis noticed a comely young woman with golden tresses and blue eyes wandering apparently aimlessly about the park. She was attired in amid sMll or operatives, better wages ^ commencement Host Parish tntro- cl, in torn means, in time, hiffner '’f 6 ' 1 *«• * »• Har » er ’ ’"tf*® prices for cotton. ! , wlth r,r * yer ' A,ter n " s ba ”'l uet l ’ ad Mr. Wheat ha s made a distinct ad-; *«« sar '' ed »■ Har ' ,cr mada » vance in the Held of higher quality of l,a fW ^Pomptu speech In which he work in the Southern cotton ma „ a .! wt off quite a number of pleasing and i, . . _ .. I original anecdotes. The speaker was a light calico dress. Mr. Ellis was ( ' . . . 1 never in a happier vein and If there attraced by the woman’s actions, as l h ese fancy weave towels are .eal- g & heart p re g ent that he had not she seemed to be Irvin^ to avoid him. ly f f ‘o nice to be used for drying the ' ♦ 1 •* , . . , cue setimu io oe uvin„ a>u.u uilx,, * . , _ already captured it became his prlson- so he carefully dropped behind some , hands and face and are much used as j * th j g occasion Misses Ford and schrubberv and kept his eye on the bureau and small table coverlets by 1 f ‘ on oc casion. Misses fora ana scnruDberj ana ktpi ms eje 011 housekeeper8 ' Gew. of Limestone college, responded ~ And this is from the Charlotte Mr Harper ’ and the y oun * ladles Chronicle concerning the same mill: | a,so captured the hearts of those pre - Tbe progress that the South is mak-: Rent-especially the young men. ing in the manufacture of the finer 1 , After hav,n K in valn called on Sam grades of cotton goods, is manifested' ( P ° rt ’ Maypard Smlth and others ’ by the character of the fabrics being! HaPPy Cal Cl ° Sed the eVeDt in a turned .out by the Irene Cotton Mill; neat t little speech in which he took and nluneed in The water at this at Gaffney, S. C. This is Mr. Wheat’s : ° cCasi o n t0 sa .v that although he had ^int is no? morJ than three feet j mill. He has sent to Charlotte some ’ been the host at h fty banquets he had deep, but the desperate woman made ( samples in jacquard weaving in fancy 1 "^rTo^mr? dTli-htM TnTcoieenW no attempt to get up. Her body rose j and of a beautiful pattern.: and suggested that It cbmild to the surface and sank again and In finish and weave, these jacquards ^ d J bat H - hou,d again for the third time. In the j so perfect that they might be sold meantime Mr. Ellis was bqrning the ovej- a counter for figured linen. Mr. wind, so to speak from his hiding, Wheat has always been working to B y 8 yjl All honor to such young men. Jane—Lower | Congressman Finley has been send- . ing out copies of his speech on tl^e i postoflice appropriation bill, delivered to the regular programme was an WUkinsville, May 19.—The meeting in the house of representatives ] original comic dialogue between a began at Salem last Friday night and, March 10th - We calle J attention to i Hickory Grove darkey and one of the , , , li . this speech and made a few ex- dusky race from Sharon—J. S. Wll- ck>sed on Sa a h n g w one ac t ceptg j ron] w hlch only give a faint kerson represented the Hickory cession to the church. Rev. George } ( j ea 0 f a ]j j ie sa id | Grove darkey and Clarence Slaughter, B. Ratchford had no ministerial help. ; The entire speech must be read to i the one from Sharon. We are sorry Good sized congregations attended get that. His position, for rather \ we can’t now give a full text of the The weather was fine what he said) on the ship-subsidy bill dialogue, but as soon as we can get meets our hearty approval though we time and space will try and give it each service throughout. It was Mr. Ratchford’s first visit to do not claim to be a statesman or our congregation. He will preach any part of one, yet we do think we girl. They were the i on the western bank of the lake, but the womaji walked carelessly a ound the edge of the lake until she cached the north ern side, near th pavllllon. Here she paused for a n oment. gazing Into the water below. She then stepped nearer the edge, altered a moment to our Ledger readers. There will be a congregational there again on the 3rd Sabbath in have common sense enough to know! meeting at Salem church on the fifth June (D. V.). when the government is dealing fairly | Sabbath, 31st inst., at TO o’clock a. m. Rev. Mr. Gantt, a superannuated with Its people, or when It discrlml- All the members of the church are re- aiinister of the Metohdist church, at- nates against one class at the expense' quested to attend, tended the meeting at Salem. or against the interest of another.! Some of our Ledger friends and co- One of our neighbors says the Mr. Finley in his speech says: “I am | workers still persist in calling thi» correspondent old. This must stop or we’ll get mad. There is already one “old man” connected with The ledger and that’s enough. Though we should live a hundred years we are not going to be old. We expect reason he doesn't take a paper is be- opposed to the ship-subsidy proposi- j cause he doesn’t like to read about tion In any form.” That’s a clear cut ! storms and cyclones. Sensible con- issue from his standpoint, elusion but that don't keep tnern a great maney things come up in from coming. legislative proceedings that the mass- We made a hurried trip to Gaffney os of the people know nothing of and , on Monday. Very few country people perhaps care less until they are en-1 our whole life to be a fountain of pur- ! were in town. Farmers are not loaf-, acted Into law, and then they realize petual youth. ers as a general thing. They go to (often to their sorrow too) what it; We once heard of a ladle's society town only when they have business | means to them. j being broken up by the passage of A and that’s a healthy business sign. : We want it understood that we are i resolution that the oldest lady present We see several corn raisers are carrying no man's skillet or wearing ta k e the chair. The chair was never be made an annual event. Those present were: Mr. Dever Little and Miss Earle, Mr. Sam Fort place. He ran to the spot and with-j ward the finer class of goods and the out hesitation plunged into the water,! meas «re of his success Is amply dem-1; R ^- Harr > W!heat and Miss grabbed the poor woman and dragged onstrated by these high-class pro her to the bank more dead than alive. It took him some time to restore her to life. And It was then that rhe ut- j tered ^e words with which this j story is' opened. Y^sterd.'*/ morning a L°dger re-1 ducts of the Irene Mill. FUNERAL OF MRS. GAFFNEY. The Interment Was at providence Churchyard. Mrs. Messiniah Gaffney was buried porter wentSpver to the home of Ben i Gordon. wherLythe woman is staying,! at Providence curch yard last Tues- and gathered Yie story. Although i day ’ Rev ' L ' M - Rlce - of Union, and the woman who ^as in her room up Rev ' G ' p - Hamrick conducting the stairs refused to V® tl1 ® reporter, | fuDeral ceremony. Mrs. Gordon was vert kind and gave - Mrs ' Gaffne y was the wldow of him the information sought. ! Thomas W ' Gaffney > and was a MlsB When only twelve o r thirteen vears B,,rn8 before he r marriage. She was of age Lelor Morrow, thin living In : ^ty-two years of age at the time Spartanburg county, married George j of ber death. She was one of a family Waters, with whom she live'* about; 0 * fourteen children, and she herself three monhs, and then left him, t \oing was tbe motbe r °* fourteen. Those to live with a relative. About jW who are llvin S aTe Char,es H - Gafl - ary 10th Mrs. Waters, Who had rq-; ney ’ J ' A ' Gaffney* W. S. Gaffney, sumed her malnden name, came to ^ UH1®> Mrs. j L. Bryant, M^s. M. L. Ross. Mrs. J. T. Hames Lawson, Mr. Charley Austell and Miss | Graham, Mr. LaFar Lipscomb and Miss Wolfe, Mr. Maynard Symth and Miss Andrews. Mr. Raymond McLain and Miss Free, Mr. Lowrey Walker and Miss Lodge, Mr. Arthfr Kendrick and Miss McCarley. Dr. Wells and Miss Charles, Mr. Stanyarne Little and Miss Caison, Mr. Draper Wood and Miss Machem, Mr. Leon Gaffney and Miss Davis. Mr. Keith Folgerand Miss Twitty, Mr. Louis Wood and Miss Cooner. Mr. Calhoun Turner and Miss Dew, and Rev. S. B. Harper. fixing up their land in. tip top order. This shows they are going to do something or be found trying. We don’t know who all are in tne prize contest this year. But there are several we suppose. We don't know how friend Lem Blanton is getting on but he Is the dreaded man, with Mr. D. C. Painter a close second. We have only two words of advice to give and that is; “Watch Drate.” no man’s collar, and what we say here Is not intended to promote any taken. In the last two issue there is a Mr. James G. Love and family, who! neither do we care. In the absence ! have been living at Gaffney cotton! of proof to show that we are wrong we shall insist that it’s a measure the country don’t need and can well get along without. Gaffney from Cowpens, where she had been living with the family of Boyce Morrow, to stay with Mrs. Ben Gordon, who was then in ill health. She is a distant relative of Mrs. Gor and Mrs. W. A. Haas. All of these « live in or near Gaffney, except Mrs. Hames. who lives at Bellevljew, Fla. Mrs. Gaffney left forty-six grand- idon. Lelor has remained In Gaffney children and seventeen great-grand- /since. In the meantime a young man i rbildren - who works at the Gaffney Manufact-1 Wb™ she wafi thIrteen years ° r urlng company became acquainted sb, ‘ Providence church and with her and began to pay her court. Last Sunday the couple had a serious talk and the young man informed the young woman that he could not marry her because she had been married and the law of the land would not per mit her to take on a second husband. We got this Information from the lived to see all of her children unite with the same church. Her life was filled with good works, and to her de- soondents her life Is a rich heritage. He r body was laid beside that of her husband who preceded her to the grave more than twenty years. A large concourse of relatives and THE GENEROUS SOUTHERN Will Furnish Transportation to Gas ton shoals for Press Association. Col. A. N. Wood, who was delegat ed to take up the matter with the Southern Railway in regard to secur ing a special train for the use of the Press Association, has received the following letter from Mr. W. H. Tay- loe, general passenger agent, which is self-explanatory: “Washington, D. C., May 13, 1908. * Mr. A. N. Wood, V.-President, "Merchants and Planters Bank, Gaffney, S. C. “Dear Sir:—Your letter March 14, 1908, and subsequent favors, address ed to Mr. B. G. Fallis, superintendent, this company, Greenville, S. C., have been referred to this office for atten tion. “Your request for an engine and two coaches to give the delegates of your convention, a trip to Gaston Shoals, S. C., has had the consider- covered In -a profusion of beautiful i aGon °f 0Ur ®*®cutlve department, flowers. young man. Since the young woman ! f r,en< I R assembled at the churchyard declined to be interviewed the only pay tbp sad r *f es f° ! b * s mos t thing is to presume that she had be-j e * t,mable , woman ’ an ? the grave was come disappointed in love'and wanted to end her life and adopted this method of doing so. —. . After being rescued by Mr. Ellis Mr . E ' Humphrey,* who owna • the young woman went back to Mrs. large general store at Omega, O., JUd Gordon s house, which is just beyond president of the Adams Countf the Irene mill near the lake. She Telephone Co., of Pike County, O. went into the house unobserved and -jt S!1Vfc(1 my life once> At leagt , the first Mrs. Gordon knew of the af- think it did. It seemed to reach tba fair w r as when Lelor asked Mrs. Gor-! s 'P ot —the very seat of my cough,— don if she knew where her dry ^! ,Pn . c t^ ery S ,nff 6,86 f i Ule £” D I' * . Kings New Discovery not only reach clothes were. Mrs. Gordon was hor-. ( . g the cough spot; ft heals the sore rifled and asked her if she had fallen spots and the weal? spots in throat. Into the lake or had someone pushed bmgs and chest. Sold under guaran her In and the girl replied, “I wish to ^ e AA at Cherokee Drug Co. 50c and God he (Mr. Hill., had let n,e .lone” S '' 0 °- Tr ' al bottle free - The would-be suicide Is a mere girl, --That cut glass pitcher has been r aot having reached her eighteenth in the window eight days at 50 cents birthday. She is of a melancholy dls | pe r day or four dollars off from first position, so Mrs. Gordon says, and j cost. The price is today $11. What does not talk much. She has had a more do you want? You are going world of trouble for one so young and to put off purchasing too long If you had become tired of the battle. It Is don’t look out. hoped that she will think better of life after having been so near the other shore. A California’s Luck. “The luckiest day of my life was when I bought a box of Bucklen’s Ar nica Salve;” writes Charles F. Bu- dahn, of Tracy, California. “Two 28c boxes cured me of an annoying case of itching piles, which hgd troubled me for years and that yield ed to no other treatment.” Bold un der guarantee at Cherokee Drug Oo. —The Rocky Ford Cantloupe la the most prolific and tbe sweetest of all cantaloups. Try our seed. Gaffney Drug Co. —Early Golden Dent corn, Blonfs Prolific corn, 4 to 6 ears to the etalk at Gaffney Drag Co. —®ee our Shirts look like $1 goods. Yours for 46c, at the Haberdasher. and I have pleasure In advising that the service 4n question will be fur nished as requested. “Upon receipt of details from you as will enable us to arrange the sche dule, the matter will have our further prompt attention. “In this connection, desire to invite attention to the fact that Southern Railway train No. 36 is due to pass Gaffney, S. C., at 8:05 a. m., and It would therefore be necessary to sche dule the special to follow', say'8:20 a. m. “Inasmuch as the correspondence reached us through Mr. Fallis, I am sending him copy of this letter that he may be fully informed. “Awaiting your further advice as to the details referred to, I remain, with cordial regards, “Yours truly, “W. H. Tayloe, “Gen. Pass. Agt.” —We call your attention to tbe de licious richness and cleanliness of our ice cream. We have our own cows which furnish the cream and ifillk and assure you that Ice cream can not be made better than ours. Gaffney Drug Co. —We can and we will. The Hab erdasher. mill for several years, have moved back to their farm at Smith’s ford on Broad river. The Wllkinsvlle oil mill Is finishing tip its work for the season. At a meeting of the session of Sa lem church last Sabbath C. W. Whlso- nant tendered hlg resignation as church clerk which was accepted and Sam J. Strain was elected to fill that position. Mr. Robert Stinson, one of our over-the-river neighbors, sent us a cockle-burr weed with several full grown and well developed cockle- burrs. This is a puzzle some of our best Informed botanists can’t solve. Besides this, there has been some jlmson weed blooms—something we never saw this early in the season. While In Gaffney Monday we called at The Ledger office and inspected the new power plant by which the entire machinery of the office is run. It’s a a very insignificant looking affair to possess such great power—equal to five horses. Uncle Jimmy Rains said several year ago that “Ed De- Camp would spend the last dollar be has to make his paper one of the finest in the land,” and It seems that the prediction has some resemblance of truth In it. With hlg compliments Mr. Will Darby sent Mrs. “J. L. S.” a copy of the “Cool;. Book” recently gotten out by himself and Mr. J. P. Hamil, of The Ledger. The old lady after put ting on her glasses and inspecting the book carefully, noting some of tbe receipts, pronounced It splendid, but added; “If It would only tell me how to get something to cook, or stove wood cut, I would like It bet ter.” One of our colored friends and Led ger readers, Bridge Rled, who farms on Mr. W. R. Walker’s Sunnyslde place, says that while his force has been Increased he has not added any thing to his cotton area but Is con centrating the extra force on raising corn and other cereals. If we had more workers like Bridge we would have better farms. We had a splendid rain last Mon day night. Oats and gardens^,, were suffering and farmers were needing It on account of. tbelr hard ground. Since the rain cotton Is coming up where It was considered killed or damaged by the cold and dry weather. Mrs. Sam J. strain and daughter, Miss Ruth, visited Mr. and Mrs. Asa Blackwell yesterday. Mr. and tfrs. H. B. McDaniel and children, of Hickory Grove, spent Sat urday night with us and attended preaching at Salem. We had the pleasure of meeting our young friend, Prof. Estle Mc- Most of our readers (if not all of them) remember that several years ago a sub-treasury bill was gotten up ostnsibly for the relief of the farmers. It was about the first time the farm ers had put up an organized fight for their rights as they thought. To us the proposition was right and reason able and the whole country from Vir ginia to California, went Into it. The States were stumped in behalf of the measure and on this some men got into office who never could have smelt it had It not been for their advocacy of the farmer’s rights. When the time came for the sub treasury bill to be enacted into law It was turned down because it was claimed to be unconstitutional. The farmers were powerless to do anything but to submit, and this they did gracefully if not gratefully. Now here comes another class—the ship owners and ship builders and ask for government aid to carry on their busi ness Just on the same principle that the farmers did. If it wasn’t right fo r the govern ment to help the farmers it Isn’t right for It to help the ship-owners or any body else. Along this line Mr. Finley very properly gays: “Today this country has a most un reasonable and unjust tariff law for the purpose of protection, and results In enriching the few at the expense of the masses. Under the preesnt tariff law of the United States a ship- subsidy law which would restore the American merchant marine would cost the treasury of the united States anywhere from $80,000,000 to $90,000,- 000 annually. This money would be contributed by all of the people and be paid out as a bonus or subsidy to a few shipowners, i am opposed to the ship-subsidy proposition in every form. To my mind the proposition is indefensible from every view point. It means nothing more nor less than that where a business is unprofitable on account of tbe protective tariff that parties engaged in this unprofitable business shall be authorized to go to the treasury of the United States and receive enough money to make their unprofitable business profitable, in utter violation of Jefferson’s defini tion of democracy, ‘equal rights to all; special privileges to none.’ The fact that it costs twice as much, prac tically speaking, to build a ship in this country as it does in England or conlnental Europe is the reason for this onslaught on the treasury of the United States.” Brown Wylie, the baby child of Mr. cal make-up of The Ledger. Surely the “Old Man” has got a move on himself. J. L. S. man’s candidacy for congressional j marked improvement In the mechanl- honors. Nothing of that. But when a man is making a manly fight for the best interest of his constitunts as Mr. Finley i s doing, it would be base ingratitude not to commend him for It. We don’t know but what The Led ger and other papers may favor a ship-subsidy hill (in whole or in part) Resolutions of Respect. Whereas, God iu His infinite wis dom has seen fit to remove from our number Brother B. S. Lipscomb in the strength of his young manhood, he it resolved: 1. That in the death of Brother B. S. Lipscomb, Limestone Lodge No. 74, has lost a useful and an enthusiaB' tic member. 2. That while we grieve that our friend and brother should be cut down in the flower of his manhood, yet we bow In humble submission to the will of the Father of all mankind. 3. That our heartfelt sympathy be extended to the parents, brothers and sisters of our deceased brother who have been sorely bereaved. 4. That a page in our minute book be Inscribed to the memory of our de parted brother; and that a copy of these resolutions be sent to the be reaved family. W. S. Hall, Jones J. Darby, W. K. Gunter, Committee. CURE THE CAUSE. Ho w to Remedy Much of the Suffor- Ing In Gaffney. Half of the sickness and suffering In Gaffney comes from a weak stom ach. Cure the canee by using Ml-o-na Stomach Tablets and be well and haih py. Even the most chronic cases yield to Ml-o-na. W. C. Worrell, connected with the Lake Shore Railroad tor years, says: “For fifteen years I had acute stomach trouble and nothing helped me. A friend recommended Ml-o-na and two boxes entirely cured me.” Cure the cause of your suffering and be well and happy. If the stomach Is weak and you have Indigestion, flatulence, dizziness, headache, etc., get a 60-cent box of Ml-o-na from The Gaffney Drug Co. They give an absolute guarantee to refund the money unless Ml-o-na cures. —Go to the Haberdasher and those serge suits. —There Is nothing In the melon line as sweet as our pure Carolina Bradford Watermelon. Deep red meat, perfectly delicious. Our seed Is the best; pure strain. Gaffney Drug Co. —Clem son College authorities claim that Teoslnte is the greatest of all forage crops for milk cows. Can be cut every two or three weeks. Pro duces a naturally rich yellow butter. Seed at Gaffney Drug Co. —We appreciate your trade. Come to see us at the Haberdasher. •ebacribe for The Ledger, $ua